Survivor: David vs Goliath

Survivor: David vs Goliath is the fifth Survivor season of Survivor League. This season premiered on December 30th, 2020 and it concluded on March 27th, 2021.

For the first time in Survivor League's history, there was a final 2. In the end, ReneeCIarke defeated JxRvv in a 6-3 vote, claiming the title of Survivor League's fifth Sole Survivor.

Production
After the previous 2 seasons consisting returning players, Survivor League's 5th season brought an all new cast to the islands of Fiji to battle it out for the title of Sole Survivor. There were a total of 76 applicants for this season, and 20 castaways were chosen from these 76 to compete. Before the premiere, Kayerona and TheSpongingRevenge dropped out of the season, and would be replaced by MaddieU23 and cqrdinals. This season received much controversy regarding certain members of the cast, leading to 2 expulsions of 2 certain castaways due to rule breaking. The premiere of this season was on December 30th of 2020.

Twists/Changes

 * David vs. Goliath: The castaways were divided into tribes defined by how they play the game. The ​ tribe consists of underdogs while playing the game, while the tribe consists of overachievers or "overdogs".
 * Hidden Immunity Idol: There were two idols hidden at each camp. When the tribe expansion occured and the Tiva tribe was formed, an idol was hidden there along with an extra idol hidden at the swapped David and Goliath camps. Once the tribes merged, an idol was hidden at the merge camp as well.
 * Tribe Expansion: With 15 castaways left in the game, there was a tribe expansion. There would be 3 tribes of 5, and the David and Goliath tribes would be renamed to and, and a third tribe, ​, was formed.
 * Double Tribal Council: On Day 20, it was announced that out of the 3 tribes, only 1 would win immunity and the other 2 tribes would each go to separate Tribal Councils and vote a member off.

Trivia

 * This is the first season to feature a final 2 instead of the classic final 3.
 * This is the second season to have a gender balanced cast, following Survivor: South Pacific.
 * This marks the first time that tribes are officially renamed, as David and Goliath were renamed to and  after the tribe expansion.
 * This season has the record for being the longest season, with an astonishing 88 total days the castaways played the game.
 * This is the first season since Survivor: Hawaii where castaways were expelled from the game.
 * Coincidentally, both seasons consisted of 2 expulsions.
 * This season has the record for the least castaways on a merge tribe, with 11 total castaways merging, while all of the previous seasons had at least 12 castaways making merge.
 * However Survivor: China had 10 premerge boots, while this season only had 9. But Survivor: China had a 24 person cast and a 14 person merge, while this season had only 20 castaways.
 * There was a total of 5 idols wasted this season, and 2 idols never used due to their possessors being eliminated with them.
 * However both of the people eliminated with idols had no control over their eliminations, as Cookiejuice58220 was rocked out and laimz_YT was expelled.
 * This is the second season to feature a rock draw.